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Thanks...good to know.

Decent crowd today at the Super Pit to watch the Mean Green top UTSA and go 6-5 on the season and 1-0 in CUSA play. Led pretty much the whole way and up by 20+ for awhile. Pan interesting note was that UTSA has a senior transfer on its roster from Butler named Loryn Goodwin. Ring any bells? While listed on the roster, she was not with the team today. I asked a UTSA assistant after the game why she wasn't with the team today...got nothing but a shrug in reply. Hey, I tried. So, did she graduate from Butler and is now playing as a grad with one year left...or since she is listed as a senior and not a grad ... Is she sitting out another year? I thought I had heard that she was Butler's leading scorer last season. If that's true...why transfer again? Anyone have any info on this? Nice win to open CUSA play. If you would like to watch these ladies play, come join us Sunday at 3pm at the Super Pit as the Mean Green take on UTEP in an attempt to go to 2-0 to open conference play. A nice and loud home crowd couldn't hurt.

Thought Mom and Dad had split and Mom did not have near the cash she once had. What I learned...if you are on the lam and want a pizza...go order in person, pick it up yourself and pay cash. Or better yet, skip the pizza. What's pizza without beer anyway? That delivery guy can lead the cops right to you. Never too old to learn something new.

Well, you said "young people"....leaves me out.

Ha! Hit too close to home for you Mr. Sensitive? Now you are even a pseudo-psychologist. Even though it was not in response to any of your posts and not at all directed at you, but if the shoe fits.......Hey, opinions ...just like yours. See, if it hits too close for your comfort you go all Mr. Sensitive on everybody. It's just the Internet and a message board as you have told countless of posters. So sorry to have touched a nerve here. Take a Midol and let this message board thing go for awhile. Might be too much for your sensitivities. As long as you are out there with the everything is bad with UNT all the time finding problems with every solution, I'll be right here with the "rest of the story". Thought you had figured that out by now...sensitive AND a slow learner....priceless. Hit that ignore button, and it will save you from so much angst.

Again...have tried to explain umpteen times to no avail. No need to waste any more of my time on those who refuse to see it is my choice and my position. If you see otherwise...good for you. I do what I do for the reasons I have and in no way consider any donation to UNT throwing good money away. Anyone who cares to use whatever excuse they want for not supporting UNT is simply availing themselves of their choice. Your video snippet reminds me of those who claim to no longer support UNT yet continue to post here on a regular basis.

Just consider the source.

Wow...missed the whole point, but thanks for playing. You pretty much came in at the middle of the movie and never caught up. Carry on....some will just never grasp the concept of paying it forward because it is the right thing to do I guess. For those folks it is all about them and what's in it for me. Try to focus...it isn't about only athletics...it is about UNT. Oh, never mind...not worth my time trying to explain it for the umpteenth time. Sigh......

And, here I was thinking fans were people with their own reasons for being fans. Wow....radical!

Nope...you are proof positive that it is impossible.

So, you are saying to stay away from the best pole dancers?

Really? If you only see UNT as a source of entertainment for your own amusement through athletics, maybe so. But, if you are interested in the University from which you graduated as a whole, and its current and future students, then you get an entirely different perspective and realize that it isn't all about you. You can see the glass always half empty if you choose...and it is a choice..I choose to see the much bigger glass as more than half full. Just a different perspective...explains a lot I guess.

From Cox Motivation: "Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution."

There is no charge on nights when appetizers or light snacks are served. Only charge is on nights when a dinner is served.

Thank you. My concept exactly. Paying it forward right there with you. To my university. Not to any individual, but to my school, to our student-athletes, to my academic departments. UNT is bigger than ANY individual or program.

Pretty good customer service here from the folks in the athletic dept. I realize there have been issues, especially in the area of the ticket office (which they are addressing), but it appears that a new effort is being made to move ahead and reach out to their fan base. Personally calling folks to explain schedule changes is pretty fan friendly, and allowed us to reach out to others to spread the word. I received several emails from other season ticket holders who had received a call and who were passing the info along. Hopefully, the word got out and anyone interested in attending will be aware of the changes. Go Mean Green....a win to close out 2015 for the men would be nice.

Got it. Thanks...missed the sarcasm. Your original post makes more sense to me now....agree with your assessment here.

Don't be so defensive...I was supporting your position.

That was certainly not the point the column was inferring from the FBI statics. No where did they indicate that police shoot peple simply for fleeing.

Maybe so, but Navy seems to run it pretty well. In this case it is called designing an offense that works for your team. Generally, service academy athletes are not the biggest or fastest of D-1 athletes as the admission and entrance requirements are rather still and even athletes must adhere to standards expected by all cadets and midshipmen. Tough to handle the regiment duties, classroom duties and athletic duties. Takes a special young man or woman. Navy's coach has figured out how to minimize the size and speed differences to a good extend. "Old and lame" it may be, but the Midshipmen created a pretty darn good season and a bowl win utilizing that "old and lame" system. Seems to have worked pretty well for Navy over the last several years.

The Dec. 29th Women's Game against Panhandle State has been cancelled. The men's game has been moved to a 7pm tip-off. The Green Room will open at 6pm before the men's game. The Athletic Department folks are trying to call as many ticket holders as possible, but I thought it might be good to get it on here as well...just in case folks had not heard and may be planning on attending. I appreciated the effort made to contact me and others even though I will miss the game due to being out of town. If you know others who might be effected by these changes due to weather conditions, please reach out to them and let them know. The Mean Green Club newsletter will also have the information.

The Washington Post studied the approx. 1000 fatal shootings by police departments across the nation for 2015 and came up with some interesting conclusions. It appears that the vast majority of such shootings fall into one of three catagories: 1. People wielding weapons, 2. People who were suicidal or mentally ill, and 3. People who ran when officers told them to halt. In addition, only 4% of such fatal shootings were the type that ignited the most violence and protests around the nation...white police officers killing an unarmed black man. While black men make up only 6 percent of the US population, they do account for 40% of the unarmed men shot to death by police in 2015. In the majority of cases in which police shot and killed a person who had attacked someone with a weapon or brandished a gun, the person who was shot was white. But a large and disproportionate number - 3 in 5 - of those killed after exhibiting less threatening behavior were black or Hispanic. Regardless of race, in more than a quarter of cases, the fatal encounter involved officers pursuing someone on foot or by car -making chase one of the most common scenarios in the data. This whole thing deserves some serious study by law enforcement experts, and a review by training officials in departments across the nation. But, citizens need to help themselves as well....when a law enforcement officer tells you to halt...it is a pretty good idea to halt.

Why would I ask that question? Doesn't matter to me one way or the other. Not even on my radar screen of caring enough to ask. But, thanks for the shout out. By the way...have sent you a couple of PM's about the Cheer team scholarship game. No need to reply to the coach question. Got that covered now. Hope you will play again this year...your team did win last year, right?

Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year to the Mean Green Nation.

The constant negativity is not fair criticism. It is from the same folks who constantly find something to complain about in everything UNT. Constant negativity is not "fair criticism". Something about a rumpled $100 bill comes to mind. But, you really did know this already.